Harness-saddle



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EDWARD e. ROBERTSON, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,574, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed May 10, 1889.

T aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD G. ROBERTSON, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the same, reference being had to'the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of harness-saddles illustrated or represented by the one shown in my prior patent, No. 393,926, issued from the United States Patent Office on the 24th day of December, 1888.

The object of this invention is to provide a harness-saddle having the -feature shown in said prior patent, but adapted for other grades and kinds of harness.

The invention consists in the improved harness-saddle andin the arrangements and combinations of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim;

Referring to the accompanying drawings, embraced in two sheets, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a side'elevation of the improved saddle. Fig. 2 is a plan of a portion of the same, a certain top leather being removed to show the parts below more clearly. Fig. 3 is a section taken at line 01:, Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is a section, enlarged, taken on line y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan of a leather top piece, showing a stiifening-plate therein; and Fig. 5 is a section taken on line m, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 illustrates a modified construction of a certain top plate of the saddle, and Fig.

' 7 is a central vertical section showing said plate in its relation to the bottom plate. .Fig. 8 is a detail plan of a skirt, showing certain tongues formed at the end thereof.

In said drawings, a indicates a metallic bottom plate, which is deeply concave or hollow on its upper side and convex on its under side in cross-section, as indicated in Fig. 3, and in side elevation, as in Fig. 1, is angular Serial No. 310,231. (No model.)

and shaped to conform to the curves of the horses back. The said bottom plate is cast or formed in an integral piece and presents a pad-like roundness, because of the shape above described, such as is displayed bythe ordinary stiffened pads. The said bottom plate, furthermore, is perforated, as indicated in Fig. 3, where it engages the back of the animal to lighten the saddle and to provide ventilating-passages, whereby the pad may be kept at a lower temperature.

Within the concavity of the bottom plate, adjacent to the upper edges thereof, is arranged an upperor top plate I) of metal. This is also angularwhen viewed in side elevation, and

when arranged in position engages or lies quite close to the upwardly-extending flanges,

the said top plate. The edges of the top plate rest on bearings f, formed at the sides of the fiangesbl), as described in my prior patent. The bottom plate or jockey or tree and the top plate form what maybe termed the frame of the saddle. I

The upper plate differs in-its construction from the one previously described in that at its opposite extremities, where the skirt 2' is fastened to it, said plateis of irregular shape and not uniformly flat, as in my prior device. At the center of said top plate, at the ends thereof, the portion 9' is level or flush with the surface of the body portion 27, and at the sides of said portion 9' the plate is depressed or bent down to a lower plane, as at g g, to receive the tongues h h of the skirt and bring their upper surfaces flush with the surfaces 12". At j, nearer the extremity of the top plate and between the surfaces 9 g, the plate is still further bent down, so as to provide a bearing to engage the bottom plate and enable the extremity of the top plate to be secured to the said bottom plate. The surfacej being below the surfaces 9 g allows the Ice latter case the said top plate being centrally Y and longitudinally grooved or recessed from one side of the saddle to the other, as at Z in Fig. 6,'for that purpose. The said groove is of a depth about equal to the thickness of the back-band, so thatthe latter at its upper face may'be approximately flush with thesu'rface b", so that the top leather may have a level bearing thereon, as will be understood. The

raised portion g, beneath which the backband passes, is also level with the portion bf, so that the top leather or jockey on may lie thereon fand be fastened down in place by thetarrjet'ora pad-screw. H

Tl re sk'ft 1 n'ay be secured to the top plate by tacks, sewing, or any other suitable fast-a V r l 'gsetforth. is peculiar arrangemen't of parts I s'ecu e in asaddle of theclass referred to pe-g enrn s.

To 'p eventthetop leather on from curling atit'seuter end or (ends below the point or; s vvhe're iti's held down by thepad-screws P 1 .7 or terret l have formed the same of a pluralen said plies or fold's, entirely concealed thereby, is arranged'a thin 's'tiffeni'ng-platem',

Figs. new This plate is ooncaved or out out. its outer end, here it lies close to the: end'o'fjthe top leather, sot'hat While the "CO1": ners er the leather are held down by thepro- A jecting points'of the plate the center will be allowed a limited flexibility over the back-' band.

I claim as new is- 1. The'combination, With the concave convekbdttom plate of a saddle, of "a top plate arranged therein and, provided with a center bearing 'gpflush with the body. of said-top: plate, lateral depressions g g,'and cent'ra'l'depressiona skirtohavin tongues h h h" and gQg, andra lower central (1 folds orfplies sewed or otherwise united.

a back-band heldto said bearinggjfl'substan- 'tially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The improved saddleherein described, combining therein a metal bottom plate conforming to the horses back, as described, a top plate secured to said-bottom plate and having 'at its opposite extremities bearings g, depressions g g, and a lower depression j, a skirt having tonguesh 'h h" secured to said top plate, and a back-band arranged beneath the bearin'g'g', substantially as and for the 1 purpose set forth. 4

3. In -a saddle, the combination, with alne'ta'l bottom plate angular to conform to the horses back and concave on the upper side, forming fiangesbibfi'of a metal top plate'rese ii rg betweensaidflangesfand secured to said botto rn plate, is'aidjtop ip'ljate ha ends thereof a tearingjgf, lateral 'de 1 ession j,che-sa1"d iplate be'i nga'd" ed to receive the ski-rt, substantially *as for the passages S4. The improvedsaddleco Inbining, t e

an ular frameeonformin 'to thelrorsesback a top leather consisting of *aplurality-df folds 'or' plies and a stiffening-plate independent'iof said framejand interposed between the "'d iplies or folds to prevent the said top leather 'from turning or curling, substantially as 'described. l

5. The improved saddle co *bi ian ang'ular, franr'e, am lea the upper side of said frame,a plate having aconcavedteX-tren y betweenthe foldsxof saidtop 1e vent the same ffioin curling "at the end t1 yet allowing a limited flexibility at 'the*eentel of'the extremity of the said "top leather, I v v substantially as set forth. 'a' v ing thus described my invention, What 7 In testimony that 1 claim foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 7 th 'day of May, 1889. v .7

; EDWARD ROBERTSON,

Witnesses: "OLIV R DRAK-E, E. L; SHERMAN. 

